An election hustings on planning and regeneration is being arranged for Saturday 14th April 2.30pm-5pm by the Southwark Planning Network in the lead up to the local Council elections on 3rd May. This will be a community-led meeting, and a community exhibition on planning issues from the neighbourhoods across the borough. It will be at Christ Church at 676-680 Old Kent Road, near Commercial Way. Email info@peckhamvision.org to get involved. Follow twitter '''[https://twitter.com/ShapeSouthwark @ShapeSouthwark]''' for news as it unfolds.

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An election hustings on planning and regeneration is being arranged for Saturday 14th April 2.30pm-5pm by the [[http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Planning#Southwark_Planning_Network_.28SPN.29|Southwark Planning Network]] in the lead up to the local Council elections on 3rd May. This will be a community-led meeting, and a community exhibition on planning issues from the neighbourhoods across the borough. It will be at Christ Church at 676-680 Old Kent Road, near Commercial Way. Email info@peckhamvision.org to get involved. Follow twitter '''[https://twitter.com/ShapeSouthwark @ShapeSouthwark]''' for news as it unfolds.

Election Hustings

An election hustings on planning and regeneration is being arranged for Saturday 14th April 2.30pm-5pm by the [Planning Network] in the lead up to the local Council elections on 3rd May. This will be a community-led meeting, and a community exhibition on planning issues from the neighbourhoods across the borough. It will be at Christ Church at 676-680 Old Kent Road, near Commercial Way. Email info@peckhamvision.org to get involved. Follow twitter @ShapeSouthwark for news as it unfolds.

New Southwark Plan (NSP) Submission Version

Consultation has ended

The consultation ended on 27th February 2018. The council will now collate the comments and submit them to the Government along with the new Southwark Plan. Some community comments on the main issues will be uploaded here in due course, and highlighted for the Council elections.

Introduction

This page is compiled by Peckham Vision through the work in coordinating Southwark Planning Network (SPN). The New Southwark Plan (NSP) which is out for consultation, until Tuesday 27th February 2018, is the final version from the Council. They aim to submit it without changes to the Government in April for the Examination in Public (EiP) sometime between June and possibly November 2018. You can see a copy here.
You can get a paper copy by mailing - planningpolicy@southwark.gov.uk - and arranging to pick it up at Tooley Street or asking them if they will post it. There are also copies available in Libraries for reference. For more on the information on this page, and how to get involved, email: southwarkplanningnetwork@gmail.com More Council information on the NSP plus the borough map with many improtant details click here.

Submitting comments

Comments on the Council’s consultation on the New Southwark Plan have to be sent to -planningpolicy@southwark.gov.uk- by 27th February 2018. It is important to get emails in on any policies that you are interested in and also development sites in areas that you are familiar with.
Example templates have been prepared by SPN members to help in this:

December 2017 Getting help to make comments

At this stage of developing the Plan, the Council does not take any moire comments for discussion. Instead they are submitting their final version of the New Southwark Plan (called the Submission Version) to the Government for an Examination in Public (EiP). An Inspector is appointed and the Inspector arranges Public Hearings on the basis of comments that people make in writing before the 27th February 2018 (extended from 12th February). These comments are 'representations'. This page brings together the information we are compiling about community organised sessions across the borough in January/February 2018 for help and advice to local people on preparing their representations on the New Southwark Plan (NSP). These are arranged by Peckham Vision through the Southwark Planning Network (SPN) and in collaboration with Community Southwark and Southwark Law Centre

You can come to one or more than one session. Please email info@peckhamvision.org to reserve a place and for further information.

New Southwark Plan (NSP) soundness tests

Only people or organisations who send in written comments by 27th February 2018 saying the NSP is not legal or is unsound for specific reasons, and in the right format, will be able to speak at the Public Hearings if the Inspector invites them. For information on this see

Template for comments

To help in this process, we have prepared a template to use to submit comments here. This will be an acceptable alternative or complementary to the on-line form on the Council's website, as well as to keep notes of the required details. There are some key aspects that must be followed to have a good chance of your issue(s) being chosen by the Inspector for the Public Hearings and for you to be invited to speak. The template is designed to capture all this.

NSP extracts

We have created pdfs for some parts of the NSP to help them to be found more easily. Ones created so far are:

How to start

In the meantime you can start or continue to identify what you want to comment on. We will be sending more info and advice on all this later, but we suggest these steps first:

1. AREA VISION(S) & DEVELOPMENT SITES
Read carefully the pages for your neighbourhood(s) which contain the Area Vision and all your area's development sites.
- You will find these in pages 94-335 in : the NSP
- You can find a pdf from that for your neighbourhood to download and print here: http://www.southwarkcan.org/nsp_final_version

Identify what you think should be changed, and why, in the Area Vision and/or any sites that you know, and write some text for that, and keep a careful note of the page number and NSP section number references. Bring a typed draft of this text, even if rough, with you to one or more of the drop-in sessions.

We are doing a special exercise on the loss of industrial land across the borough so please note carefully which sites in your neighbourhood are losing industrial land and how much.

2. NSP DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
There are 6 strategic policies (pages 3, & 16-20 in the NSP) but they cover many individual topic policies some of which interrelate. The list of Contents on Pages 3-7 show what topics are included in the detailed policies and how they are grouped. At this stage, if you have time read through the policies on pages 21-93, mark any that you have questions about or concerns or already have a view that they are not right or there are better ones. Draft your ideas and keep a careful note of the page number and NSP section number references.

If you haven't time to read all the NSP policies, see if any concerns of yours fit with the topics in the NSP Contents list on pages 3-7 and look to see what the NSP says about them.

We expect there to be a number of comments across a wide range of policies, and we aim during January to link these where it is useful. These include: